Luis A. Campos, has been recongized by the Peruvian Government and its Foreign Ministry as the “Most Distinguished Peruvian in the Community of Peruvian Expatriates.” (read more)
“From Kirriemuir to Lima and Back” published in The Scottish Dentist – July/August 2009
Kirriemuir dentist James Estill has travelled to Lima in Peru every year for the past five years to undertake charity work in deprived communities. However, this year, Dr. Estill took with him a cheque for £4,594 raised from personal donations from… (read more)
“Operación San Andrés: A Christian Ministry to Peru” published in The Monthly Record, the magazine of the Free Church of Scotland – September/October, 2008
Operación San Andrés was begun by my wife Ruth and myself in 2003 as a Christian ministry to imporverished people living in Collique, a shantytown on the outskirts of Lima, Peru… (read more)
“Building Community in Peru’s Shanty Towns” published in Buckner Today – Spring 2008
On the outskirts of Lima, Peru live some of society’s most marginalized people. Many have escaped extreme conditions – guerilla warfare, drug cartels and unending poverty – in hopes of finding employment and a better life in “shanty towns.” But what they really find is more despair. “Their living conditions are really terrible,” said Dr. Luis Campos, a Houston-based cardiologist who first started visiting the desert shanty town Collique. (read more)
“From Kirriemuir to Collique and Back” published in The Scottish Dentist – September/October 2007
I made my first visit to Collique, a shanty town on the outskirts of Lima, in October 2004. A few months beforehand a GMP from Kirriemuir asked if I was interested in doing some voluntary work in Peru. His brother-in-law Luis Campos, is a Peruvian living and working as a cardiologist in Houston… (read more)